Motivational Quotes

Time

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

2.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

3.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

4.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

5.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

6.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

7.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

8.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

9.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

10.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

11.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

13.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

15.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

17.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

18.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

21.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

22.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

23.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

24.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

26.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

27.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

29.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

31.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

32.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

34.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

35.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

36.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

37.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

38.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

39.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

40.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

41.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

42.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

43.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

44.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

45.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.